Can you get the number of lines of code from a GitHub repository?

Question

In a GitHub repository you can see “language statistics”, which displays the percentage of the project that’s written in a language. It doesn’t, however, display ho

Answer 1

npm install sloc -g

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vuejs/vue/
sloc ".\vue\src" --format cli-table
rm -rf ".\vue\"

Instructions and Explanation

1. Install sloc from npm, a command line tool (Node.js needs to be installed).

npm install sloc -g

2. Clone shallow repository (faster download than full clone).

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/facebook/react/

3. Run sloc and specifiy the path that should be analyzed.

sloc ".\react\src" --format cli-table

sloc supports formatting the output as a cli-table, as json or csv. Regular expressions can be used to exclude files and folders (Further information on npm).

4. Delete repository folder (optional)

Powershell: rm -r -force ".\react\" or on Mac/Unix: rm -rf ".\react\"

Screenshots of the executed steps (cli-table):

sloc output (no arguments):

It is also possible to get details for every file with the --details option:

sloc ".\react\src" --format cli-table --details